Benefits

Brewers Association (BA) membership connects you with the brewing community to help you succeed. More than 10,000 individual owners, CEOs, brewers, buyers, marketers, distributors and managers look to the BA to provide them with the services they need most.

Smart decisions will give your business the advantage. Becoming a BA member is no exception. Membership offers many benefits that can keep your brewery or business on the cutting edge.

Besides the detailed benefits below, members reap additional benefits like the following:

Brewing Quality

The industry enjoys a wealth of technical information. The BA compiles and produces resources and provides them to brewers to help you take your beer to the next level. Members also exclusively enjoy access to results from the Hops Usage Survey.

Pipeline Resources

Do you know your growers and the challenges they face? The BA aims to ensure the availability and quality of ingredients for craft brewers. We work hard to provider regular updates to members on supply chain and market trends.

Additional Benefits

Government Affairs

Tax Savings

Defense of the small brewers tax differential that allows small brewers to pay 60 percent less federal excise tax (up to 60,000 barrels). That’s a savings of $11 per barrel. Coordination with state brewers associations on state excise tax proposals.

Regulatory Agency Liaison

Advocacy of a plan to reduce the number of excise tax reports a brewer under 7,000 barrels must file from 25 to four reports.

State Brewing Associations (Guilds)

Support of state brewers associations on state issues. Facilitation of interguild communication.

Capitol Hill Education and Promotion Events

Biannual craft beer education events for members of Congress and their staff. Communication with the House of Representatives Small Brewers Caucus.

Legislative Updates

Monthly updates on state, federal and court actions; also featured in The New Brewer.